[Fred Astaire]
Photograph
[Fred Astaire]
ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 10 1/16 × 12 13/16 in. (25.6 × 32.5 cm)
Museum accession
1988.1389.0002
Inscriptions Cropping marks in pencil on verso
Stamped in violet ink on verso: 7010
Printed in black ink on verso, C: TROPHY COLLECTOR. . Fred Astaire's [circled in blue pencil] two months entertain- \ ment tour of France, Belgium and Holland was the high \ spot of the star's career. . . . Astaire left Hollywood immediately \ following the completion of his star role in M-G-M's \ Technicolor musical "Ziegfeld Follies." . . .
Printed in black ink on verso, C: 3. Among the souveniers given him by the G. I's is a \ piece of the parachute used by the American forces on \ D-Day which Astaire brought back for his wife to make into \ a scarf. Also in the suitcase are various Nazi insignia. \ 7010
Handwritten in pencil on verso: p-10 \ 1/2 p.
Stamped in blue ink and handwritten in pencil on verso: M.S. MAG. \ PAGE 10 PHOTO NO. A \ ISSUE April YEAR 1945
Stamped in violet ink on verso: 7010
Printed in black ink on verso, C: TROPHY COLLECTOR. . Fred Astaire's [circled in blue pencil] two months entertain- \ ment tour of France, Belgium and Holland was the high \ spot of the star's career. . . . Astaire left Hollywood immediately \ following the completion of his star role in M-G-M's \ Technicolor musical "Ziegfeld Follies." . . .
Printed in black ink on verso, C: 3. Among the souveniers given him by the G. I's is a \ piece of the parachute used by the American forces on \ D-Day which Astaire brought back for his wife to make into \ a scarf. Also in the suitcase are various Nazi insignia. \ 7010
Handwritten in pencil on verso: p-10 \ 1/2 p.
Stamped in blue ink and handwritten in pencil on verso: M.S. MAG. \ PAGE 10 PHOTO NO. A \ ISSUE April YEAR 1945
